Pictured below is the test system with the EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SSC installed. Note that the enclosure is a Lian Li V1000, which has the motherboard positioned in a direction opposite traditional enclosures.

Graphics Card Installed

Hardware and Operating System

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 - 3.0GHz Conroe Core - 4MB L2 Cache - 1333MHz FSB
• BFG nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
• 4GB Corsair XMS PC8500 DDR2 SDRAM 5-5-5-18-2T @ 400MHz
• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
• PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW-SR Power Supply
• Lian Li V1000 Enclosure
• Dell 3007WFP LCD Monitor
• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0c

Graphics Cards, Drivers, and Driver Settings

• EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SSC - 740MHz Core / 1835MHz Shader / 975MHz Memory (1950MHz Effective)
• Inno3D GeForce 9600 GT - 700MHz Core / 1680MHz Shader / 950MHz Memory (1900MHz Effective)
• GeForce 8800 GT - 700MHz Core / 1500MHz Shader / 1000MHz Memory (2000MHz Effective)
• GeForce 7900 GS - 500MHz Core / 690MHz Memory (1380MHz Effective)
• ForceWare Beta 174.12 - GeForce 9600 GT
• ForceWare Beta 169.28 - GeForce 8800 GT and GeForce 7900 GS
• 32-Bit Color
• Vsync Disabled
• 60Hz Refresh Rate
• High Quality Texture Filtering
• Gamma Correct Antialiasing

Test Applications

• BioShock
• Call of Duty 4
• Crysis
• Far Cry
• F.E.A.R.
• Oblivion
• Quake 4
• STALKER
• The Witcher

Notes

• Antialiasing was set to "Override any application setting" in the driver for Oblivion.
• Anisotropic filtering was set to 8x in the driver for Oblivion.

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